Leadership Series - Polarity Management: Navigating Unsolvable Problems

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Name: Leadership Series - Polarity Management: Navigating Unsolvable Problems
Date: April 10, 2018
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
Registration: Register Now
Event Description:
Consider the following:
  • Do you work with an organization that vacillates between focusing on cost vs. focusing on quality improvement?
  • Have you worked with a manager who goes back and forth between being directive or participative – giving directives to staff or inviting them to help shape projects?
  • Do you work with a team in which some members focus on getting the work done and others are more interested in building relationships, as a foundation for getting the work done?
  • Are you a parent who fluctuates between tough love and gentle love?
These are all polarities.  We encounter them in organizations, where staff or leaders feel caught between conflicting goals.  We often encounter them in our family, and in teams that we work with.  In health care and other organizations, the attempts to improve quality are seen to drive up cost, so they switch to focusing on managing cost.  How do you attend to both?   How do you help team members and leaders manage this tug of poles?  How do you manage the poles in your own work?
 
Takeaways:
  1. Learn the Polarity management model and the process to use the model
  2. Apply the model to a specific polarity relating to business or organizations  
  3. Understand how to move from “either/or” to “both/and”
  4. Understand how to use this tool to manage change in an organization

About the Presenter:

Abby Yanow is a Leadership and Organizational Development (OD) consultant and Leadership Coach.   She coaches managers and directors to lead change, to better engage their teams and to improve their management skills.  She also coaches teams to improve their working relationships and productivity.   Abby is known for her skill in facilitating group process and learner-centered workshops.  She has facilitated retreats for senior leadership teams, team development, collaboration across departments, visioning, strategic planning, cross-organization collaboration and focus groups.

Since 2001, Abby has served as President of the Boston Facilitators Roundtable, which is a professional network of organizational consultants and coaches focused on learning tools and models of leadership, team and organizational development. Under her leadership, the BFR received the 2015 Outstanding Regional OD (Organizational Development) Network Award.  Abby has a Master’s degree in Education and Intercultural Communication.  She is an ICF certified coach (International Coaching Federation) and is certified in Organizational Development (National Training Labs).   
Location:
Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce
265 Franklin Street, 17th Floor
Boston, MA 02110
Date/Time Information:
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
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Fees/Admission:
$50 - Members
$75 - Nonmembers
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